Month: February 2022

Divorce: An Ending and A Beginning

By Geri Kerr / February 9, 2022 /

At the time that we get married, none of us ever expects that we will get divorced. In fact, many of us likely believed that being married Catholic somehow afforded us extra protection that we would never end up getting divorced.  We took our Catholic vows seriously.  Through the good times and bad, we never…

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Listening (and Learning from) Our Painful Emotions Through Divorce

By Geri Kerr / February 8, 2022 /

In 1995, Daniel Goleman’s NY Times Bestseller book “Emotional Intelligence” broke new ground. Raising our awareness about the many ways to nurture and strengthen our emotional intelligence, the book and the topic provide a lot of food for thought.    That said, it still seems to me that as a culture and as people, we…

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Ministry for Separated and Divorced

By Geri Kerr / February 8, 2022 /

No one ever expects to get separated or divorced when they get married.  Especially if you were married as a Catholic or as a Christian in church, you took that extra step as a way of solidifying your marriage in the eyes of God and the larger Christian community.     You took the solemn vow…

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